I can do this orthopedic surgeon one or two better, since I have practiced 42 years now and join him in his frustration with healthcare by apparatchiks.
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Category: Medicine
MERS Virus–Where's a microphone?
Middle East Respiratory syndrome Virus is a flu virus of the corona virus family.
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Detecting brain injury, concussions
This new ocular testing device shows concussions.
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Racial differences do exist in susceptability
In this case we are talking about a bad news problem for blacks–multiple myeloma which is associated with gammopathies.
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Beware the Morning
In emergency medicine we know that cardiac events have a circadian pattern, more in the morning.
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Stem Cell Medical Trials with errors–woops
People reading this web site are constantly pointing out my spelling or grammatical errors.
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Being Fat is not as bad as we might think.
Here’s a study that shows people with high BMI’s (that’s fat) do just as well with per cutaneous intervention (cath and stents) for heart attacks.
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Hepatitis C–a bad boy for many reasons–now treatable with successes
Hep C is acquired from blood products mostly, and intimate contact not so much, but it causes chronic hepatitis with liver failure in some, and can even cause liver cancer.
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Resistant Bacteria
This note from ACSH prompts me to comment.
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Bjorn Lomborg's reach exceeds his grasp
Bjorn Lomborg doesn’t know toxicology or medicine, he’s a statistician. He has a Ph D in Political Science.
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Dalrymple on Obesity–marvelous
Last week I told you about a British Medical Journal article on the benefits of barriatric surgery over behavior mod, the current operations of preference are Roux en Y with gastric reduction (one helluva surgery), sleeves (simpler) and such.
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Another junk science Patient Safety Pronouncement
Do these people even stop puttin’ up this crap?
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